Sonar 2016.05 - noticeable performance improvement

i have read this in other threads, i haven't used sonar much since around kingston and basically moved to another daw as my main daw for various other reasons. after updating to the latest release and taking it for a spin i also thought that performance had improved and that the load seemed to be spread more evenly across cores as you say, although the first still always higher. but then i had read this before actually trying it for myself, so i wondered if i was actually seeing it or things were being 'colored' because of what i had previously read placebo effect type of thing
 
it would be good to get some official word as to whether or not something was done that would directly affect performance in a positive way in the latest release.

electrons move much faster on a dark grey background...

well for me anything between say kingston and manchester, never updated past manchester until this latest release, and kingston was the last one i really done anything with before . . .  well . . . doing it somewhere else

iirc around that time there were others posting about possible performance issues. i do know that when i installed the early release version for this latest release the first thing i noticed was it seemed more snappy. then again i also think my car runs better and rides smoother after a good clean out and wash , so it might be just perception, the new skin/theme and all (which is very nice i must say) but going by the performance meter it does seem to be obviously more evenly spread across the cores than it did, still number 1 is higher, but from what i understand that is how things are. doesn't really matter i suppose, but it would be good to know if it is real or imagined.

I don't notice anything better performance-wise, and I push my system into the red 7 days a week. Runs well, as it has been for the last good few builds.

I mentioned in another thread that my core balancing seems better with the current version. Doesn't seem faster than last month. Cakewalk should write a little program to control the performance module in the control bar. We would all be cheering because the little core bars were all aligned, and talking about how much faster it seems. 

thaddeusjon
Yes I did lose my drivers for Audio 6, but the problem was due to a Windows 10 update in the background while launching Sonar 2016.05.

Win10 looks great, but things like this make me wanna stay with Win8 as long as possible.

Yes, I had the feeling of improvements as well, especially when it came to MIDI editing in the PRV.  Even with a modest amount of instruments and MIDI data in the PRV in the past, the scrolling and screen activity would lag terribly.  Right now it's been drastically reduced - same for the large number of clips on the track view pane.  Definite optimization improvements on my end.
 
Hope that clip splitting issue is next on the chopping block.... pun intended! :D

Noel has now clarified if there was a speed increase this release it's my imagination.
 
Maybe orange takes less power than blue and somehow it sped up anyway..

What specifically is faster?
 
My songs are playing just as fast as before.

2016.05 seems to take longer to startup than some earlier versions (to get to the start screen with recent projects).  2016.04 wasn't any better.   This is on Win 10 with an i7 3770, 16GB RAM and an SSD on a SATA III motherboard port (Port 0).

fireberd
2016.05 seems to take longer to startup than some earlier versions (to get to the start screen with recent projects).  2016.04 wasn't any better.   This is on Win 10 with an i7 3770, 16GB RAM and an SSD on a SATA III motherboard port (Port 0).

VST scan (if run on auto-scan at startup) seems to take longer, too, despite no plugs having changed ...